Summary:
This activity is to be used as an introduction
and review for all other kit activities.
Quick
Questionnaire
Activity 1
Materials: One double-sided photocopy of the
questionnaire for each student
Location: Indoors
Time Required: 15 minutes
Activity
1. Provide each student with the following questionnaire. Later, after the teacher has
taught some of the concepts and the class has done the activities, the second side of the
questionnaire can be used as a review exercise. The quiz can be used to gauge what was
learned by the students.
2. Answers to this questionnaire are provided for teacher reference.
Quick Questionnaire Student Worksheet
Name : _ ____________________________
Date : _________________________
School :_ ____________________________
Class : _________________________
1. What do you think “species-at-risk” means?
2. Do you think that the following animals and plants endangered in New Brunswick?
Check true or false.
Species
True
False
Peregrine Falcon
Blue Jay
Furbish’s Lousewort
Piping Plover
Great Auk
Maritime Ringlet Butterfly
3. Identify the reasons why certain species are at risk today:
A) Loss of habitat
D)Hunting
B) Weather is too wet
E)Pollution
C) Not enough food
F)Too many human diseases
4. a) If an animal or a plant is not found on Earth anymore, which term best describes this
situation?
A) Vulnerable
D)At Risk
B) Uprooted
E)Extinct
C) Stable
b) Can you identify one of these species (question 4-a) that used to live in New
Brunswick?
A) Passenger Pigeon
C) Gulf of St. Lawrence Aster
B) Black Bear
D) White-Tailed Deer
5. Why is it important to protect species-at-risk in New Brunswick?
Teacher’s Copy of Quick Questionnaire
Correct answers are underlined
1.What do you think “species-at-risk” means? (Correct answer underlined)
A plant or an animal that may disappear from the Earth.
2. Do you think that the following animals and plants endangered in New Brunswick?
Check true or false.
Species
True
Peregrine Falcon
X
Blue Jay
Furbish’s Lousewort
X
Piping Plover
X
Great Auk
Maritime Ringlet Butterfly
False
X
X
X
3. Choose the reasons why certain species are at risk in NB today:
A) Loss of habitat - main reason
D) Hunting - is more carefully controlled today
B) Weather is too wet E) Pollution
C) Not enough food
F) Too many human diseases - there are
some fungal diseases, such as the
beech canker that threaten the beech tree
4. a) When an animal or a plant is not found on Earth anymore, which term best describes
this situation?
A)Vulnerable
D) At risk
B)Uprooted
E) Extinct
C)Stable
b) Can you identify one of these species (question 4-a) that used to live in New Brunswick?
A) Passenger Pigeon
C) Gulf of St. Lawrence Aster
B) Black Bear
D) White-Tailed Deer
5. Why it is important to protect species-at-risk in New Brunswick?
Part of the food chain could disappear forever; moral responsibility
Quick Questionnaire Student Worksheet
Name : _ ____________________________
Date : _____________________
School :_ ____________________________
Class : _____________________
1. What do you think “species-at-risk” means? Circle the correct answer.
A) An animal that is caught in its nest
C) A species in danger of becoming extinct
B) An animal that can be tamed
D) A species that cannot have young ones
2. What do you think? Are these animals and plants endangered in New Brunswick? Check true or
false.
Species
True
False
Peregrine Falcon
Blue Jay
Furbish’s Lousewort
Piping Plover
Common Dandelion
American Crow
3. Circle the answer that best explains why certain species are at risk in New Brunswick today:
A) Because there are too many kinds of animals
C) Because of the loss of their habitat
weather
B) Because there is not enough food
D) Because of heavy rains and bad 4. Do you think it is important to protect species-at-risk in New Brunswick? Why?
Teacher’s Copy of Quick
Questionnaire
Correct answers are underlined
1. What do you think “species-at-risk” means? Correct answers are underlined.
A) An animal that is caught in its nest
C) A species in danger of becoming extinct
B) An animal that can be tamed
D) A species that cannot have young ones
2. What do you think? Are these animals and plants endangered in New Brunswick?
Check true or false.
Species
True
Peregrine Falcon
X
Blue Jay
Furbish’s Lousewort
X
Piping Plover
X
False
X
Common Dandelion
X
American Crow
X
3. Circle the answer that best explains why certain species are at risk in New Brunswick
today:
A) Because there are too many kinds of animals
B) Because there is not enough food
C) Because of the loss of their habitat
D) Because of heavy rains and bad weather
4. Do you think it is important to protect species-at-risk in New Brunswick? Why?
Answers: Part of the food chain, may disappear forever, moral responsibility